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KNITTED FABRIG FOR MAGHINB BBLTING, 88c. No. 393,188. Patented No 20, 1888.

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BENJAMIN L. STOWVE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR OF THREE-FOURTHS TO J. VA'N D. REED, OF SAME PLACE.

KNITTED FABRIC FOR MACHlNE-BELTING, 80C.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent; No. 393,188, dated November 20, 1888.

Application filed December 5, 1887. Serial No. 257,025. (No specimens.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, BENJAMIN L. STowE, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Knitted Fabrics for Machine-Belting and other Purposes, of which the following is a specification.

The invention is an improvement upon the machine-belting knitted fabric shown and described in Letters Patent No. 321,153, of June 30, 1885. The said patented knitted fabric is a solid knit selvaged fabric of the width re quired for the-belt,having incorporated in it straight longitudinal strands and a weft, and also binding-strands, if desired.

The improvement I have made on this fabric consists in adding to the fabric a second strand of weft and in so placing or depositing the two weftstrands that they shall be on opposite sides of the longitudinal strands, which latter consequently extend and are held between said weft-strands. This change in or addition to the fabric effects a substantial improvement. It neutralizes and removes a tendency to roll laterally, which the fabric as before made possessed, while the face of the fabric is rendered smoother and more uniform. The improved fabric, when used for machine-belting, will better hold a lacing or other device for connecting its two ends, and it is less liable to be imperfectly knitted in consequence of the additional weft serving to hold the knitting warp or strand in such a position during the process of knitting that when a stitch has been dropped by a needle, at the succeeding operation of the needle the stitch will again be caught and perfect knitting resumed, whereas as the fabric has heretofore been made the knitting warp or strand would not be again caught by the needle until assisted by the operator.

Machinery for producing this fabric is not here described or claimed, the same being reserved by me for a separate application for Letters Patent.

The fabric which is the subject of my present application is illustrated in its preferred form in the accompanying drawings.

Figure 1 is a very much enlarged representation in plan of a portion of a solid knit selvaged fabric embodying my improvement. In the actual web or fabric the strands are of course packed closely together. They are represented in the drawings enlarged and widely separated in order that the structure of the fabric may be more readily understood. Fig. 2 is a simi lar view of a modification.

The fabric shown in Figs. 1 and 2, with the exception of the second or additional weftstrand, is precisely like that described in my aforesaid Letters Patent, No. 321,153,with reference to Figs. 5 and 6 of the drawings annexed to said Letters Patent, A being the knitting warps or strands, which are worked into a series of zigzag looped stitches alternately to one side, and the other of warpstrands B, which. are worked into a series of rows of straight looped stitches. D are the longitudinal strands laid along the rows of loops formed by the warps B. E is the weft or filling, and O are the binding-warps.

This fabric, which is one having all the looped stitches upon one and the same face of the fabric, is substantially the same as that which is shown and described in my aforesaid Letters Patent. The addition which I have made to said fabric is the weft or filling E, which is laid upon the side of the longitudinal strands opposite that upon which the weft E is laid, and which is held in the fabric by the same stitches which hold the weft E.

Machinery for making this improved fabric has been made by me the subject of a separate application for Letters Patent, filed November 30, 1887, Serial No. 256,560, to which reference may be had for a full understanding of the same and its mode ofoperation. Fig. 2 differs from Fig. 1 only in the different specific arrangement of the two wefts. They retain, however, their general position therein with relation to the longitudinal strands the same as in Fig. 1.

Having described my improvement, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is as follows:

1. Asolid knit selvaged fabric, all the looped stitches of which are on one and the same face of the fabric and are composed of alternate rows of straight stitches B and zigzag stitches A, having incorporated in it straight longitudinal strands, and also two wefts' or sets of wefts, E E, deposited upon opposite sides of the longitudinal strands and secured in the fabric by the same stitches, substantially as hereinbefore set forth.

2. A solid knitselvaged fabric, all the looped stitches of which are on one and the same face of the fabric and are composed of alternate rows of straight stitches B and zigzag stitches A, having incorporated in it straight longitudinal strands and binding-strands, and also 10 two Wefts orsets of Wefts, E E, deposited upon opposite sides of the longitudinal strands and secured in the fabric by the same stitches, substantially as hereinbefore set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 3d day of December, 1887.

BENJAMIN L. STOWE.

\Vitnesses:

A. P. MERWIN, F. A. STOWE. 

